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From: "curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Debian List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:33 AM
Subject: fstab mounted windows shares
> Question:
>
> In order to mount at boot windows shares I have the following fstab
entry:
>
> //Server/sharename /home/Servershare smb
> username=user,password=password 1 2
>
> In order for this to work, of course, the username and password are in
> my case, my Domain Username and Password. These are entered in the
> fstab in plain text.
>
> The problems are evident.
> 1. There is the issue of safety.
> My password is basically available in text format.
>
> 2. There is the issue of password changes.
> We have an policy whereby everyone must change their password every 4
> months, which would mean going in and having to change this every 4
> months as well.
>
> Surely there is a way to not have to enter my username and password in
> the fstab. Or is there?
Here is what I used to do,
I used to have a script in my home directory which asked me for password
and then mounted the sytems - I suppose you could just as well put the
password in your script and set it user readable only.
I used smbmount
from smbmount man page
smbmount service mountpoint [ -o options ]
<extract>
Options to smbmount are specified as a comma separated
list of key=value pairs.
</extract>
<extract>
username=<arg>
specifies the username to connect as. If this is
not given then the environment variable USER is
used. This option can also take the form user%pass
word or user/workgroup or user/workgroup%password
to allow the password and workgroup to be specified
as part of the username.
password=<arg>
specifies the SMB password. If not given then smb
mount will prompt for a passeword, unless the guest
option is given.
</extract>
HTH,
Shri
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